WI News: New Five-Year Study Finds Employers Harass And Retaliate Against Workers In Union Elections

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WI News: New Five-Year Study Finds Employers Harass And Retaliate Against Workers In Union Elections

http://www.laborradio.org/node/11160

05/21/09

By Doug Cunningham

Cornell University professor Kate Bronfenbrenner says a five year study finds that three-quarters of American employers engage in illegal anti-union activities when workers try to use NLRB elections to form unions.

: "We found that employers are engaging in a combination of threats, harassment, interrogation, retaliation and literally terrorism against workers in the workplace. And they're doing so with impunity because we have a legal framework which is broken."

Restoring the right of workers to organize is critical if the majority of workers who say they want unions ever have a chance of getting them.

: "We need to get a system in place so that workers are able to exercise their right to join unions. And the Employee Free Choice Act is an important first step in giving American workers their right right to organize back again."

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1. NO!!!! Really?!!! SERIES???7? n/t

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